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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joern Lehmhus" data-source="post: 789159" data-attributes="member: 3229">Hi Jeff,To me the Emperor goose parentage is without doubt- to find out which whitefront was involved is more difficult...I think in the third link I gave, the bird is also GWFG x Emperor-allthough the angle is not that useful, I think the head shape is different from your bird...definite might only be a DNA analysis here.... (or maybe even that not in all cases, as some captive LWFG have mitochondrial DNA from GWFG, indicating some breeders in the past might have done some hybridisation between captive stock of the 2 whitefront species).However I am happy with assuming the whitefront parent of that goose was very likely a lesser whitefront.</blockquote>